US Adds New Sanctions On Chechen Leader Kadyrov For Rights Abuses

(RFE/RL) -- The United States has slapped additional sanctions on Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov "for numerous gross violations of human rights."

The U.S. State Department said on July 20 that for more than a decade the Moscow-backed leader of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya had been responsible for abuses including...